So they've got a gasket to replace on the oil pan.
i think it was a oil line that needed to be switched out or something. and parts aren't easy lol
Yeah, that is a good point, but then again someone could probably custom fabricate replacement parts.
I think that's exactly what they were waiting for, actually lol. But still, building anything from scratch that will be reliable on an airframe....
Yeah, that's why you don' have any old 'smoe' in his garage build the parts from what he has lying around, you hire someone like Northrop Grumman or Boeing to computer-machine custom fabricate the parts.
but none of THOSE companies would build parts for a Soviet-Block aircraft.
Why not, if they are getting payed to build them, I don't see why they couldn't.